At least you tried! And annoying that you stumbled upon hw issues.
If you ever want to try again what about getting hold of an old drive, or try dual boot, then you can swap back to windows easily and there’s less pressure for Linux to work out of the box.
As you say the guides you used didn’t match, try and research more about what is the correct distro for you, and maybe start with one that looks like a sure bet.
Guys, seriously, I know how to do this. I’ve installed Linux on random PCs for decades. It’s not my first rodeo.
Once you turn the century it starts to get annoying when people’s default stance to legit compatibility issues becomes to affect condescending patience at you. I knew how to set up a dual boot (I chose not to, instead directly booting from an external drive, which works just fine and allows you to revert by just yanking it out), I knew how to find support (the guides don’t match because the laptop family I was using needs specific libraries and kernel modifications and my model is relatively rare so the tutorials aren’t meant for it specifically).
I swear, the Linux community, such as it is, thinks that everybody backing off is some technically illiterate rando and mostly scared of UX differences and typing terminal commands. That’s really not the case. All available Linux DEs are extremely easy to parse for both Windows and MacOs users, being able to copy/paste text to take semi-complex actions instead of digging through the visual interface saves some time and the total normies that could use this type of feedback aren’t trying to do this in the first place. It’s fine.
I’ll try again next time I have a disposable computer that has some specific plug-and-play distro ready to go. Maybe. If I feel like it. And if I need tech help with it, I’ll gladly ask. For now, though, this particular machine is back to Windows because the troubleshooting is more of a hassle than the transition is an improvement. That’s the beginning and the end of this conversation, really.
I mean, call it what you want, that’s why I qualified it in the first place.
I’m not mad at them, but it’s been long enough that I do find it frustrating that you can’t share any degree of a technical problem or UX issue without having a bunch of people crawl from under every rock to share with you the same three pieces of Linux 101 advice.
Nah, I don’t have a problem at all. That’s my point. I never asked for help and got a bunch of condescending, inapplicable, very basic advice regardless.
I shrugged it off the first couple of times. Which, if I say so myself, was big of me, considering this has been going on for twenty five years. I’m exceedingly patient, if anything.
Look, it’s the age-old story of social media: your well-intentioned post with basic anecdote is the first time you bring it up, but the hundredth time the person you’re responding to has been in this exact conversation. They’re not snippy at you because they’re trolling or arrogant, they’ve just been having a dozen people tell them the same obviously wrong exact thing every five minutes for a while and are increasingly unwilling to go through the motions.
That’s a big, important lesson when you’re trying to make an online space grow, if you want to be constructive about it and bring this little spat back to topic.
At least you tried! And annoying that you stumbled upon hw issues.
If you ever want to try again what about getting hold of an old drive, or try dual boot, then you can swap back to windows easily and there’s less pressure for Linux to work out of the box.
As you say the guides you used didn’t match, try and research more about what is the correct distro for you, and maybe start with one that looks like a sure bet.
Guys, seriously, I know how to do this. I’ve installed Linux on random PCs for decades. It’s not my first rodeo.
Once you turn the century it starts to get annoying when people’s default stance to legit compatibility issues becomes to affect condescending patience at you. I knew how to set up a dual boot (I chose not to, instead directly booting from an external drive, which works just fine and allows you to revert by just yanking it out), I knew how to find support (the guides don’t match because the laptop family I was using needs specific libraries and kernel modifications and my model is relatively rare so the tutorials aren’t meant for it specifically).
I swear, the Linux community, such as it is, thinks that everybody backing off is some technically illiterate rando and mostly scared of UX differences and typing terminal commands. That’s really not the case. All available Linux DEs are extremely easy to parse for both Windows and MacOs users, being able to copy/paste text to take semi-complex actions instead of digging through the visual interface saves some time and the total normies that could use this type of feedback aren’t trying to do this in the first place. It’s fine.
I’ll try again next time I have a disposable computer that has some specific plug-and-play distro ready to go. Maybe. If I feel like it. And if I need tech help with it, I’ll gladly ask. For now, though, this particular machine is back to Windows because the troubleshooting is more of a hassle than the transition is an improvement. That’s the beginning and the end of this conversation, really.
No problem, it just sounded like you needed help.
To avoid getting advice then you better mark your comment, with rant or something.
People who are mad at the “Linux community” amuse me. It just makes you sound like a baby.
I mean, call it what you want, that’s why I qualified it in the first place.
I’m not mad at them, but it’s been long enough that I do find it frustrating that you can’t share any degree of a technical problem or UX issue without having a bunch of people crawl from under every rock to share with you the same three pieces of Linux 101 advice.
Your problem is that people want to help you “wrong”. That’s my point exactly.
Nah, I don’t have a problem at all. That’s my point. I never asked for help and got a bunch of condescending, inapplicable, very basic advice regardless.
You sounded angry and childish to me. /Shrug
You could’ve just said “I’m knowledgeable and have tried those things” but instead you wrote a tirade against the whole community
The third time.
I shrugged it off the first couple of times. Which, if I say so myself, was big of me, considering this has been going on for twenty five years. I’m exceedingly patient, if anything.
Look, it’s the age-old story of social media: your well-intentioned post with basic anecdote is the first time you bring it up, but the hundredth time the person you’re responding to has been in this exact conversation. They’re not snippy at you because they’re trolling or arrogant, they’ve just been having a dozen people tell them the same obviously wrong exact thing every five minutes for a while and are increasingly unwilling to go through the motions.
That’s a big, important lesson when you’re trying to make an online space grow, if you want to be constructive about it and bring this little spat back to topic.
It was also easy to just not respond.